A PhD student at The Institute of Cancer Research (ICR) has won an Europe-wide competition for her investigation into a promising anti-cancer drug target.
Nicole Simonavicius was awarded first prize in the European research abstract competition run by MedImmune, the global biologics unit of pharmaceutical company AstraZeneca.

Viterbi School biomedical engineer and cardiologist Tzung John Hsiai hopes to develop a new tool to help clinicians distinguish cardiac emergencies requiring immediate surgery from chronic problems manageable with drugs and lifestyle change.

We usually think of fish as a “heart-healthy” food. Now fish are helping researchers better understand how heart disease develops in studies that could lead to new drugs to slow disease and prevent heart attacks.